SlideShare (a place to share and discover professional Knowledge on LinkedIn) started out on Ruby on Rails (RoR). With a focussed and agile team, RoR was a great solution because of the productivity gains it brought us, and it helped the team deliver a quality product at a fast pace over the years. I am going to refer to this Ruby on Rails code base as ‘The...

This post originally appeared on SlideShare's engineering blog. Almost all traffic on slideshare goes to one type of page: the "view" page (the page where a document is displayed). As a result, we spend a lot of energy trying to tune the code that generates that page. Any decrease in page load time that we can get directly improves the user experience for all...